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Coming Clean : Overcoming Addiction Without Treatment
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Granfield, Robert.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alcoholics--Rehabilitation.
- Drug addicts--Rehabilitation.
- Recovering addicts.
- Self-care, Health.
- Self-management (Psychology).
- Recovering addicts--Rehabilitation.
- Self-care, Health--Rehabilitation.
- Alcoholics.
- Drug addicts.
- Substance-Related Disorders.
- Self Care.
- Alcohol-Related Disorders.
- Mental Disorders.
- Therapeutics.
- Disease.
- Rehabilitation.
- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment.
- Health Services.
- Psychiatry and Psychology.
- Health Care Facilities Workforce and Services.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Medical Subjects:
- Substance-Related Disorders.
- Self Care.
- Alcohol-Related Disorders.
- Mental Disorders.
- Therapeutics.
- Disease.
- Rehabilitation.
- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment.
- Health Services.
- Psychiatry and Psychology.
- Health Care Facilities Workforce and Services.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Local Subjects:
- Alcoholics--Rehabilitation.
- Drug addicts--Rehabilitation.
- Recovering addicts.
- Self-care, Health.
- Self-management (Psychology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (318 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : NYU Press, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Despite the widely accepted view that formal treatment and twelve-step groups are essential for overcoming dependencies on alcohol and drugs, each year large numbers of former addicts quietly recover on their own, without any formal treatment or participation in self-help groups at all. Coming Clean explores the untold stories of untreated addicts who have recovered from a lifestyle of excessive and compulsive substance use without professional assistance. Based on 46 in-depth interviews with formerly addicted individuals, this controversial volume examines their reasons for avoiding treatment
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; Foreword by Stanton Peele; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter One
- Recovery without Treatment: An Introduction; PART ONE: Perspectives on Natural Recovery; Chapter Two
- Slippin' into Darkness: Narratives of Use and Addiction; Chapter Three
- The Process of Recovery without Treatment; Chapter Four
- Circumventing Treatment and Salvaging the Self: Natural Recovery as Cultural Resistance; Chapter Five
- The Social Context of Recovery without Treatment; PART TWO: Implications of Natural Recovery; Chapter Six
- Lessons for Practitioners from Self-Remitters
- Chapter Seven
- Conclusion: Addiction, Society, and Social PolicyAppendix
- Implementing Natural Recovery: Suggestions for Personal Change; Notes; Index; About the Authors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780814738672
- 0814738672
- OCLC:
- 780425892
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